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Cameron was an honest scientist, trying to find what was wrong with his depiction of the Titanic's last few hours in the movie, which were minor, literally a matter of a few degrees: (1) it was listing a bit, (2) the bow wasn't down quite so far just before it broke off, and (3) the stern never went fully vertical before it plunged to the bottom.

Reality was less dramatic.

When he said he wasn't going to go back and make changes in the film to correct those facts, I thought, "There's a wise man."

OMG. On a ferry designed to handle 608 passengers. Sad and pathetic. The official count was ca. 1500 people, but it was widely conceded that there was more than a thousand un-manifested people aboard.

Sadly...there are a number of these kinds of incidents with over-loaded ferries and other ships in foreign waters. While the U.S. has strick policies and enforcement, and several European nations do as well...once you get outside that governance....the risk goes up.

The same holds true for the airline business.

Having seen 2 more Titanic specials yesterday...there were alot of new things learned and new footage seen. Great stuff.

As I said before this mini-series should have been a PBS Masterpiece series presented over two Sunday nights. It may be that many recorded it as I did. But it would have been a better fit for PBS. I don't get why ABC bought this.

"In a hundred years there'll be a whole new set of people."
"Always poke the bears. They sleep too much for their own good."

This turkey aired over the last four Wednesday nights in Canada. The first episode made no sense to me when the timeline went from the ship's launch to the iceberg in 45 minutes! Turns out, they did it again for the next two episodes. I didn't even bother with episode four.

"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."